Crossword for Wed, 25/May/2022

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Across
1: Gumbo ingredients

6: For ___ the marbles

9: Teeming (with)

13: Foolish

14: ___ alai

15: Bad-tempered

16: Places for oars

17: Fireman's tool

18: Tea type

19: Need air conditioning

21: Bermuda and bamboo, for two

23: Slim swimmer

24: Lick

25: Choose

28: Companion of dark and handsome

30: Uses a scale

35: Excite, slangily

37: Sled dogs, as a group

39: Wrap in the kitchen

40: No longer green

41: 'Come on in'

43: Spy spying on a spy

44: Redacts

46: Unresisting

47: Hayloft block

48: Cherub's superior

50: Memo

52: Easter preceder?

53: Falling-out

55: November winners

57: File

61: Person with a lot to offer?

65: Not yet ignited

66: 'What have we here?'

68: Two-door car

69: Gaze fixedly

70: Dance like Hines

71: Musical pitches

72: Spinning toys

73: Major rte.

74: Exhausted
Down
1: Keeps from squeaking

2: Be aware of

3: Speedway competition

4: Tibia neighbor

5: Six-line poem

6: Nearly closed

7: Hardly hard-nosed

8: Feudal lord

9: Montreal streets

10: Vexes

11: Slippery sheet

12: Spots

15: Torrents

20: Fill with joy

22: Brutally frank

24: Far from subtle

25: Grimm goons

26: Self-esteem

27: Snooty critter?

29: Post-Mardi Gras period

31: Metric foot

32: Pun reaction, perhaps

33: Hunt holler

34: Betray contempt

36: Word before blocker or testing

38: In-box item

42: Fix loose laces

45: 7-Up alternative

49: Get going

51: Passes, as a law

54: Effervesce

56: Single-masted sailing vessel

57: 'Bunnies' under the bed

58: Not fooled by

59: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

60: Business letter addressees

61: Adjective for some vines

62: Ditty

63: Sesame starter?

64: Unused portion

67: 'Hee ___'




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